“Japan, lacking any objective grounds, persistently attacks and slanders China.

On network security issues ... Japan maliciously accuses neighboring countries of creating a threat.

The PRC expresses a strong protest in this regard, ”TASS quotes the words of the official representative of the PRC Foreign Ministry Hua Chunying.

At a meeting of Japan's cyber security headquarters on September 27, a draft of a new three-year cyber security strategy was approved.

The document mentions Russia, China and North Korea as potential sources of hacker attacks.

The leaders of Australia, India, the United States and Japan last week agreed to work together to counter cyber threats.